 | 1847 - 490 pages
...the cretaceous and the eocene formations. The accompanying section from Claiborne bluff to Bettis's Hill, near Macon in Alabama, may serve to explain...This upper formation (4) is composed of variously colored red, pink and white sands, and of yellow ochre-colored sands, white quartzose gravel and sand... | |
 | 1847 - 492 pages
...the cretaceous and the eocene formations. The accompanying section from Claiborne bluff to Bettis's Hill, near Macon in Alabama, may serve to explain...silicified casts of shells and corals. This upper fonnation (4) is composed of variously colored red, pink and white sands, and of yellow ochre-colored... | |
 | 1847 - 490 pages
...the cretaceous and the eocene formations. The accompanying section from Claiborne bluif to Bettis's Hill, near Macon in Alabama, may serve to explain...This upper formation (4) is composed of variously colored red, pink and white sands, and of yellow ochre-colored sands, white quartzose gravel and sand... | |
 | 1847 - 1194 pages
...the cretaceous and the eocene formations. The accompanying section from Claiborne bluff to Bettis's Hill, near Macon in Alabama, may serve to explain...This upper formation (4) is composed of variously colored red, pink and white sands, and of yellow ochre-colored sands, white quartzose gravel and sand... | |
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... of the obscurity in which the true age of the Orbitolite limestone of Alabama had been involved, it having been considered sometimes as an upper cretaceous group, and at others as intermediate between the cretaceous and the eocene formations. The... 